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 Read about The Silmarillion at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research The Silmarillion and learn about The Silmarillion ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
To be fair to Christopher Tolkien, his father wanted at all cost to see this material published, and the state in which the texts were in hardly lent to easy editing.
Christopher Tolkien himself said that had he had access to all his father's manuscripts the 1977 Silmarillion would indeed be different.
Part of the reason for this is that Christopher Tolkien heavily edited the Silmarillion to ready it for publication, in places incorrectly because he was unaware of the existence of much material which would come to light only after publication.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/The_Silmarillion   (805 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Arda: Silmarillion
Quenta Silmarillion, the longest tale, which gives an account of the history of Arda from its beginnings until the end of the First Age.
The Quenta Silmarillion itself seems to have been developed in Númenor during the Second Age, though parts of it (particularly the Narn i Hîn Húrin) were said to date back to the First Age.
The Silmarillion was actually written and rewritten over a period of some sixty years by J.R.R. Tolkien, and edited and published posthumously by his son Christopher.
www.glyphweb.com /arda/s/silmarillion.html   (549 words)

  
 J.R.R. Tolkien - The Silmarillion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, The Silmarillion precedes The Hobbit in the ancient drama that builds up to The Lord of the Rings.
The Silmarillion is both Tolkien's first book and his last, and the core of his imaginative work that underlies all his writings about Middle-earth.
The Silmarillion includes several other works besides the main story: Ainulindale, the myth of Creation; Valaquenta, on the nature and power of the gods; Allakabeth, recounting the downfall of Numenor; and "Of the Rings of Power and the Third Age," the link to The Lord of the Rings.
www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com /features/lordoftheringstrilogy/silmarillion.shtml   (323 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Silmarillion: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Silmarillion is J.R.R. Tolkien's tragic, operatic history of the First Age of Middle-Earth, essential background material for serious readers of the classic Lord of the Rings saga.
The Silmarillion is astonishing in its philosophical and theological depth.
It should be noted that the Silmarillion is a collection of stories by J.R.R. Tokien, masterfully edited by his son Christopher Tolkien, to approach some semblance of continuity between chapters.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0261102737   (1278 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Silmarillion: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Silmarillion is a gloriously realised story of rebellion, exile, war and the heroism of elves and men.
The Silmarillion is a shining glimpse into the vast expanse of history that Tolkien created as the backdrop to his main work.
The Silmarillion is not a great read in the way that LOTR or The Hobbit is. It isn't one story told linear fashion from beginning to end.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0261103660   (1329 words)

  
 The Silmarillion: Sources used by Tolkien to create “A Mythology for England”
Perhaps the greatest tale written in the Silmarillion on the travails of Beren and Luthien, one of the four unions between Man and Elf.
In The Silmarillion the Dwarves who build Menegroth of the Thousand Caves for Doriath take the pride of the artist in their work.
In The Silmarillion Tolkien, too, has chosen to narrate a series of mistakes and mishaps which are almost uniformly dark, and in which the moments of happiness are few.
mywebpages.comcast.net /mithrandircq/Silmarillion_sources.htm   (2228 words)

  
 -=[RedBookofWestmarch]=- The Silmarillion: summary and backgrounds
Although the Silmarillion was published after the author's death, it considers the oldest matter written on the world of Middle Earth.
When he was stationed in France, the ordering of his imagination developed into the Book of Lost Tales, in which most of the major stories of the Silmarillion appear in their first form: tales of the Elves and the "Gnomes", (i.
The Quenta Silmarillion is mainly concerned with the Noldor, who learned most from Aulë.
www.geocities.com /redbookofwestmarch/sil.htm   (3607 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: The Hobbit Habit
What is published now as The Silmarillion is what Tolkien referred to, in the foreword to the trilogy, as "the mythology and legends of the Elder Days." He described it there as "work done for my own satisfaction" in which he had little hope that other people would be interested.
For The Silmarillion, despite the cuts that have evidently been made in the original materials, the selection and arrangement that have been imposed on them, remains an empty and pompous bore.
The Silmarillion is a commercial and perhaps a social phenomenon of some interest, but not a literary event of any magnitude.
www.nybooks.com /articles/8321   (2483 words)

  
 The Silmarillion; a new, expanded illustrated edition - Ted Nasmith   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As mentioned previously, the new edition of The Silmarillion, with a much larger number of illustrations, has been published this fall, debuting in the UK in early September, and now available in North America since mid-November.
The Silmarillion, however, is a very different literary ‘animal’; easily disappointing to the average reader.
Such was the daunting, extraordinary matter of his legendarium; Tolkien became aware relatively late in his career that the stories we now recognize as set in Middle-earth should rightly be harmonized into a Great Whole.
www.tednasmith.com /2004/12/the_silmarillion_a_new_expan.html   (738 words)

  
 The Silmarillion Ch.#10: Of the Sindar - THE TOLKIEN FORUM
The Silmarillion From Nogrod and Belegost the Naugrim came forth into Beleriand; and the Elves were filled with amazement, for they had believed themselves to be the only living things in Middle-earth that spoke with words or wrought with hands, and that all others were but birds and beasts.
The Silmarillion, Of the Coming of Elves Thus it was that when Nahar neighed and Oromë indeed came among them, some of the Quendi hid themselves, and some fled and were lost.
The Silmarillion, Of the SindarBut new tidings were at hand, which none in Middle-earth had foreseen, neither Morgoth in his pits nor Melian in Menegroth; for no news came out of Aman, whether by messenger, or by spirit, or by vision in dream, after the death of the Trees.
www.thetolkienforum.com /showthread.php?t=11860   (3218 words)

  
 THELORDOFTHERINGS.com » TOLKIEN BOOKSTORE » "THE SILMARILLION"
The tales of "The Silmarillion" were the underlying inspiration and source of Tolkien's imaginative writing; he worked on the book throughout his life, but never brought it to a final form.
Long preceding in its origins "The Lord of the Rings," it is the story of the First Age of Tolkien's world, the ancient drama to which characters in "The Lord of the Rings" look back, and in which some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part.
The title Silmarillion is shortened from Quenta Silamarillion, 'The History of the Silmarils', the three great jewels created by Fëanor, most gifted of the Elves, in which he imprisoned the light of the Two Trees that illuminated Valinor, the land of the gods.
www.thelordoftherings.com /bookstore/the_silmarillion   (396 words)

  
 A Tolkien Dictionary
By the time of the writing of LOTR the earliest forms had mostly been changed or abandoned, yet the evidence is compelling that, at times, Tolkien liked the poesy of a name so much that he retained the older form even though the name is nearly impossible to source.
Unhappily he was not to finish the work, but left it to his son Christopher to thresh through the mountains and years of material: tales, and cosmologies, and calendars, numerous rewrites and lexicon changes...
When the Appendix to The Silmarillion is quoted as a source, the root is in small letters and boldened, followed by 'appx' in brackets [appx]; when The Etymologies is the source of the element being analysed, the letters are in capitals and boldened, followed by 'Etym' in brackets [Etym].An sample entry is Adanhel:
www.quicksilver899.com /Tolkien/Tolkien_Dictionary.html   (2183 words)

  
 Read the Silmarillion on 43 Things   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
I have not looked at the elves as lofty, superior beings at all since Silmarillion… they may be immortal, but they are every bit as flawed as mortal human beings regardless.
The Lord of the Rings is tiny in comparision to The Silmarillion.
Silmarillion is a fascinating history of Middle Earth, from before the beginning of time until The Hobbit.
www.43things.com /things/view/7385   (616 words)

  
 Writers of Rohan: Tolkien Library - The Silmarillion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In it, Middle-earth is born full of rich, vibrant characters, pulled without a doubt, from the great Nordic myths and tales.
The setting of The Silmarillion is the First Age of Tolkien's mythic history, and it is here that the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, comes to Middle-earth and wages war with the High Elves.
The Quenta Silmarillion: This is the history of the Silmarils (the Jewels) and includes the chapter Of Beren and Luthien...
www.writersofrohan.com /library/sil.html   (354 words)

  
 Guide to the Silmarillion-About this Site
From the Quenta Silmarillion, "Of Eldamar and the Princes of The Eldalië." 60
From the Quenta Silmarillion, "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath." 247
From the Quenta Silmarillion, "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath." 248
www.english.ilstu.edu /students/ajkapla/Final/about.htm   (321 words)

  
 The Silmarillion edited by Christopher Tolkien - collecting all editions of The silmarillion - rare, limited and signed ...
The Silmarillion is actually Tolkien's first book and also his last.
I know i will not be showing the first American The Silmarillion, maybe just because it is i guess the most common The Silmarillion on the market, and of no particular collectable value.
In the slipcase are a 4th Edition of The Hobbit and a 1st Edition, 4th Impression of The Silmarillion next to a 2nd Edition, of The Lord of the Rings.
www.tolkienlibrary.com /reviews/silmarillion.htm   (1756 words)

  
 DVD Talk Forum - anyone else love the Silmarillion?
If you read the silmarillion before reading the LOTR Books, it makes the LOTR trilogy appear a richer and more satisfying read.
So I recommend that people read LOTR (and its appendices) first, and then only read The Silmarillion if they're truly interested in the history, because it takes a bit of devotion.
All that said, The Silmarillion is my favorite Tolkien work.
www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=359010   (452 words)

  
 eBay - Book: El Silmarillion (ISBN: 0618135049)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A number-one New York Times bestseller when it was originally published, THE SILMARILLION is the core of J.R.R. Tolkien's imaginative writing, a work that he could not publish in his lifetime because it grew with him.
Tolkien considered THE SILMARILLION his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other works.
THE SILMARILLION is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, and their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.
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 Entmoot - The Silmarillion films???
The actual Quenta Silmarillion is the history of the "first age", but remeber, that is many many ages put together.
no one should make the silmarillion, it is too vast a story to even attempt, and it would tarnish the stories for so many of us who have read, and visualized them.
There is no way that a Silmarillion movie can be made better than that one, and that one was not good enough to be called the LotR.
www.tolkientrail.com /entmoot/showthread.php?p=295742&mode=threaded   (3297 words)

  
 The Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien
There is not much of the "psychological novel" about "The Silmarillion".
At the same time very little about "The Silmarillion" defies (too drastically) the laws of Newtonian physics or at least the physics Tolkien is able to conjure in his imagination.
He wrote about it in an epic novel written for adults The Lord of the Rings, and he set down its entire cosmology in "The Silmarillion.
www.indepthinfo.com /tolkien/sil.shtml   (404 words)

  
 The Silmarillion, Second Edition - By: J.R.R. Tolkien - Christianbook.com
Tolkein considered The Silmarillion his most important work, and, though it was published last and posthumously, this great collection of tales and legends clearly sets the stage for all his other writing.
The story of the creation of the world and of the First Age, this is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back and in whose events some of them, such as Elrond and Galadriel, took part.
The Silmarillion is the history of the rebellion of Feanor and his kindred against the gods, their exile from Valinor and return to Middle-earth, adn their war, hopeless despite all their heroism, against the great Enemy.
www.christianbook.com /Christian/Books/product?item_no=126988&netp_id=252918&event=ESRCN&item_code=WW   (467 words)

  
 The Silmarillion, Volume 3:TOLKIEN, J.R.R.SHAW, MARTIN:0553525026:eCampus.com
Set in a time far earlier than Tolkien's master works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, this is the epic history of the elves, and the grand story of the creation of Tolkien's magical world.
Tire Lord of tire Rings narrated the great events at the end of the Third Age; but the tales of The Silmarillion are legends deriving from a much deeper past, when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils.
Never published in the author's lifetime, "The Silmarillion" is an essential compendium for all Tolkien fans.
www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0553525026&referrer=yah04   (172 words)

  
 [ Daily Tolkien / Lord Of The Rings ] A Tolkien Virgin: Pre-amble and The Silmarillion: Ainulindalë   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As I listen to The Silmarillion and read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, I’ll be submitting a brief (and I do mean brief) play-by-play (chapter-by-chapter) of my reactions, thoughts, and overall impressions of Tolkien’s work.
I’m certainly not expecting The Silmarillion, The Hobbit, and The Lord of the Rings to be bad.
In the end, the Silmarillion is a cosmology that pretends to be a history.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/chat/814166/posts   (5057 words)

  
 Finduilas's J.R.R. Tolkien Page - The Silmarillion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The end of The Silmarillion is also the end of the Third Age, with the entire history of the Rings of Power that was recounted in part in the Council of Elrond though not written there (The Lord of the Rings, page 259):
One of the most moving tales told in the Silmarillion is that of Beren and Luthien.
The Silmarillion is the history of Middle-Earth from the creation of Arda to the end of the Third Age.
fin.go.wifl.at.org /tables/html/silm.htm   (1303 words)

  
 The Silmarillion Trivia and Quizzes -- Information / Questions / Answers
A quiz about the Seven sons of Feanor, those tragic heroes whose actions in the pursuit of their vow bring woe to friend and foe alike.
This quiz is about the fateful battle for Gondolin, as it is described in the "Book of Lost Tales" of JRR Tolkein, or the earliest version of what would later become the "Silmarillion".
The story of the Ainur as it is told in "The Silmarillion".
www.funtrivia.com /dir/10482.html   (545 words)

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